Converting To Witchcraft

4) PREPARATION

Set up your Temple, incense, oils, weapons. Bathe and don

your robe.

5) BANISH

The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, and Lesser

Banishing Ritual of The Hexagram.

6) CONJURE

The proper God using the Greater Hexagram Ritual.

7) TRANSFORMATION

Assume that God form. Embody all of the characteristic

properties of that God, become it.

8) INVOKE

The Archangelic and Planetary influences connected w

The meaning of this advice is not agreed upon by the majority of Wiccans, nor is it important that it be so, for Wicca is not a doctrinal religion. Since most Wiccans recognize no official priests/esses there is little to move the Rede into the status of a law (a required constraint). One interprets it as one wishes and associates with others of like mind or those whose way is acceptance.

Therefore be reminded that the following ideas (along with the subsequent description of the

A Self Initiation

The dedicant consecrates the water and salt, casts the circle, strengthen the circle and calls the Quarters.

Face the altar and say:

I invoke thee and call upon thee, Mighty Mother of us all, bringer of all fruitfulness; by seed and root, by bud and stem, by leaf and flower and fruit do I invoke thee to bless this rite and to admit me to the company of thy hidden children.

Sit before the altar, taking a moment to calm yourself. Take up the salt water. Dip your little finger in it and anoint your forehead saying:

Let the mi

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